A versatile framework for microbial engineering using synthetic non-coding RNAs

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 341-354

  Qi, Lei S ^a,b,c   Arkin, Adam P ^c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d University of California at Berkeley   (United States)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APTAMER; CELLULAR APOPTOSIS SUSCEPTIBILITY PROTEIN; DNA; GUIDE RNA; MESSENGER RNA; RIBONUCLEASE III; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BASE PAIRING; BIOENGINEERING; CELL ENGINEERING; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; DNA TEMPLATE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MICROBIAL ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR SENSOR; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RIBOSWITCH; RNA FOLDING; RNA STABILITY; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BACTERIA; BIOTECHNOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNGI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84898878580     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro3244     Document Type: Review

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